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Customer care has become an increasingly important tool for operators competing in the wireless market, says a Swedish company that recently launched its third-generation customer care product in the United States in conjunction with InfoCellular Inc.When wireless carriers in Scandinavian countries began to experience...
NEW YORK-"Why pay for cellular phone service if you only want it for emergency use?"That's the advertising slogan and the business concept for SOS Wireless Communications Inc., an Irvine, Calif., company that began selling its SOS Phone nationwide late last year.The handset, which runs...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. began offering roaming in Washington, D.C./Baltimore to its New York customers. The roaming agreement is with Sprint Spectrum L.P.Omnipoint already offers roaming in California, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah and parts of...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Cellular One of Chicago, operated by Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems, launched emergency 911 service for cellular phone users allowing callers to reach emergency assistance directly from the City of Chicago Emergency Communications Center.Airtime is provided free of charge for emergency calls, and roaming...
Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile began integrating DSC Communications Corp.'s INfusion Signal Transfer Point W/2 into its cellular network. The INfusion STP W/2 provides packet switching of Signaling System 7 signaling messages for basic and advanced services such as call set-up, caller name and caller...
DENVER-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. issued a special offer to members of the media covering the Oklahoma City bombing trial, which is set to begin in Denver this week.The company is offering a Nokia Corp. 2160 cellular phone for $150, a monthly access charge of...
Like many wireless technologies, the motivation behind FLEX was to make more possible in less bandwidth. Such is the mastery of Bob Schwendeman, a career Motorola man who is proclaimed the "father of FLEX."The FLEX promise is one of improved speed, capacity and efficiency,...
If you look at maps of the United States that depict the 1900 MHz coverage for the nation's three primary digital standards, it appears each standard will cover a great deal of the country.In the future, that is, because illustrations of coverage footprints are...
LITTLE CHUTE, Wis.-Airadigm Communications Inc. launched its Einstein personal communications services network in Appleton, Wis., and will open its first retail store for Appleton in May. The company said it is the first C-block license winner to launch service.Airadigm said it plans to add...
HANNOVER, Germany-InterDigital Communications Corp. and its two manufacturing partners say their B-CDMA wireless local loop equipment will be commercially available during the first half of 1998.InterDigital is in an alliance with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Siemens AG to create "the world's first" broadband...
Natural MicroSystems Corp. announced the latest member of its TX family of communications resource boards, the TX3000. The TX3000 is an ISA bus card that provides a powerful and highly flexible hardware platform for a wide variety of data communications and networking applications, including...
WALTHAM, Mass.-EDS Personal Communications said Century Cellunet Inc. and Radiofone Inc. will be the first U.S. carriers to use new enhancements of EDS' core clearinghouse service.The Air Rate Edit will enable Century and Radiofone to avoid being over-billed by roaming partners due to rate...
SAN FRANCISCO- In two weeks, Japanese cellular customers will gain the ability to roam internationally for the first time, using their own phone.GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. of Tampa, Fla., and Tokyo-based NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc., known as NTT DoCoMo, last week signed formal...
NEW YORK-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile said it experienced a 70 percent overall decrease in fraud since May when it implemented authentication and radio frequency fingerprinting technologies.Bell Atlantic Nynex said nearly two million of its customers are protected by these technologies while they are in...
PageMart Wireless Inc. has crossed all borders in North America and some in Central America with its formation of the PageMart Network.The international network is supported by affiliate carriers in Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas and areas of Central America to enable roaming...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. said it will begin international service during the second quarter, allowing subscribers to roam in Canada, Mexico and Central America.International numeric roaming will cost $15 per month for 400 messages. International text messaging, including 400 numeric and 100 alphanumeric, will be...
Four years ago Systems/Link Corp. introduced RoamEx, which "allowed carriers with fraud problems in big cities access to what was going on," said Diane Sammer, president of Systems/Link.Today RoamEx is rapidly becoming the ticket to global roaming.RoamEx exchanges caller data between different wireless carriers'...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. signed international roaming agreements with 26 Global System for Mobile communications carriers, mainly in Europe and the Pacific Rim.The agreements cover the United Kingdom, France, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Hungary, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy, Greece, Norway, Denmark, Finland,...
ReadyCom Inc. is in line to launch two-way voice paging services over networks already built, offering nationwide coverage and roaming capability. Its secret is cellular.The Chapel Hill, N.C., company is amidst customer trials for three new ReadyTalk products that make it possible to receive,...
ATLANTA-GTE Mobilnet Inc. began offering Cellular Digital Packet Data service in Hawaii on the island of Oahu. CDPD uses existing cellular networks to provide wireless access to the Internet and corporate intranets.Oahu joins more than 150 cellular markets in the United States currently providing...
BellSouth Mobility Inc. has introduced a simplified per-minute rate plan for digital wireless customers making calls in their home state.Digital customers in BellSouth Mobility's north Georgia, middle Georgia and Chattanooga, Tenn., markets will pay their current per-minute rates, while digital customers in other areas...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-SMR Advisory Group signed a reciprocal roaming agreement with Incom Communications Inc. Both companies will market each other's services and provide support in the 800 combined channels resulting from the agreement."This agreement is the first step in implementing our mutual vision of...
